aroused - Story 8708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around Mark thickened as he and Lisa reminisced about Camp Sunshine. He found himself captivated by her, wanting to know every detail of her experience. He was no longer thinking about spreadsheets or deadlines.

His hands felt restless, and he found himself making gestures as he spoke. He saw a flash of understanding in her eyes and felt a sudden longing for a connection he didn't quite understand.

He laughed. "Small world, isn't it?" He was surprised at how rough the sound of his own voice was. The walls of the office suddenly seemed too close. He wanted to escape, to be somewhere else.

Emotion: aroused

Cluster: Alertness

PC1 (Valence): -0.45 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.13

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion aroused. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 aroused stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the aroused emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the aroused vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.386
`S`	0.383
`P`	0.379
`own`	0.376
`悸`	0.344

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.877
`l`	-0.501
`de`	-0.474
`que`	-0.438
`been`	-0.384